Jerome Rothenberg - Comments & Themes
Comments & Themes
Topics for research and critical analysis:
- Analyze Jerome Rothenberg's poetic craft to vocabulary, structure, especially attending to variations, numerology, collaging of words, gematria...
- Consider Rothenberg's Jewishness as related to his memories, histories, and family.
- Indicate Rothenberg's use of formal devices that make the poem surreal.
- Investigate the concept of "total translation" in Rothenberg's poetry and how he appropriates sources and othering.
- Explain Rothenberg's involvement with the other life around him.
- Please, attend and decipher Rothenberg's "reading" as "happening."
- Develop Rothenberg's own view on himself as both oral and postmodernist poet.